News

We are very excited that Sam’s and Will’s paper is now published:

AccA from Neisseria gonorrhoeae provides a new framework for understanding periplasmic copper metallochaperones.

Here is a photo of Will’s first cup of tea in his publication mug, which surely tasted extra delicious!

Safa presented a flash talk and poster at the inaugural Streptococcus Great Britain & Ireland meeting at Durham University. Karrera co-hosted and co-chaired this meeting, along with Alex McCarthy from Imperial College and Helge Dorfmueller from University of Dundee.

We are very sad to see Maya Basran and Jonas Flohr leave the lab after completing two very successful 5-week undergraduate research projects. We have really enjoyed having them in the lab and we wish them both all the best in their future endeavours.

Jonas talked to The Microbiologist about his summer project, which was funded by an Applied Microbiology International Summer Studentship. You can read the article here:

Summer studentship: Jonas investigates how metals influence bacterial ecosystems.

Congratulations to Atreyee (recent lab alumni, supervised by James Walton in Durham Chemistry) for publishing the second paper from her PhD project. Click the link below to read the paper.

Today is a big day for Sam (recent lab alumni) and Will (current PhD student), because they have just submitted a manuscript! Definitely a major milestone for both that is worthy of a celebration. Fingers crossed for a smooth publication process. Here’s a photo of the two students with their very proud supervisor.

Time flies and before we know it, it’s time for Ben Kelly to finish up his MRes project. We are sad to see him go but happy that he will not be far away, as he will be starting a PhD with Dr Liz Morris in the same department.

We are happy to welcome Jonas Flohr as an undergraduate summer research placement student in our group. Jonas is generously funded by an Applied Microbiology International Summer Studentship. Jonas will develop new approaches to study the effects of metals on synthetic bacterial communities.

A very happy week – three of our group members celebrated their graduations! Oscar Goodwill graduated with a BSc (1st class) and will move on to an MRes at Oxford University this autumn. Will Earl graduated with an MRes (BSc) and has stayed on with us as a PhD student. Jack Bolton graduated with a PhD and has taken up a position as a faculty member at Sterling College, USA. Congratulations to all three!

We were well represented at the recent Microbiology Society Annual Conference in Liverpool. Will gave a short talk about his MRes project while Safa and Archie presented posters on their PhD project. We are grateful for the Microbiology Society and Ustinov College for funding Safa’s travel, and St Cuthbert’s College for funding Archie’s travel.